Not going to happen. The engine is licensed again every month, so you don’t have that much money per supporter per month, and Epic won’t want you giving the engine once to players in the hopes that after a month they will continue to illegally share parts of the modded engine code/features without paying. The whole idea even of small monthly cost for individual developers, may be riding on the understanding that modders can see a false hope in stepping up to the Game Developer subscription tier, and will then financially support the engine in being deceived that they’ll do so much with it. And “everyone is happy” that way.
What makes more sense is to give it all away for free and only charge for the released games. Epic has all ability to constrain it legally exactly how they want, as they have shown, so what’s the problem? The problem is the whole perception behind , relating to what money is, what government and what a much less important human being is, and the resulting idea that modders should always be at the bottom and have such incredible difficulty at creating games compared to the artists who happen to have thrown some cash at the right company.
No, you don’t want to talk about all the details of why the world is way, and neither does anyone else in the entire gaming or game developer world. The reality is that there are ideas like classism and neoliberalism behind all of . Politics is everywhere. And so, on thread just like everywhere else, you will just be made to be quiet and not discuss it too much and deal with it, like with the hidden prices on cg software websites. The expectation and the result is that the poor people will never actually get the power to make their own culture or break the chains of the existing stories of what the world is about, and extends through hundreds and thousands of years in human history; the “masters” own all the money/gold and so on and so they are able to shape the stories of what is happening. The AAA video game industry is the perfect example of shallow, predictable corporate-owned stories inaccessible for modification to ordinary human beings, basically touchable Hollywood propaganda. But nobody talks about and yet it is everywhere. Nobody has the attention span for all the details and the lengthy discussion, and they’d rather focus on their own life and individual challenges, so the never comes up for most people, and so it is that very thread is about denying and circling around the of what it’s so obvious to me the thread is really about.